Insane asylum Quote by RICHARD HOWARD

“What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, my shadow pinned…

— Theodore Roethke

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“Here, what do you know of madness and despair?' 'There are no such things. All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp,…

— Joseph Conrad

“It is in that visionary Madness of the Mind that permits a Madman to perceive Truth in extremis, when all else had seemed lost.…

— Anonymous

“Devoid of the poetry of madness.”

— Elaine Showalter

“Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.”

— Theodore Roethke

“people cling to folly as if it were their most prized possession, defending it, sometimes with violence, against the possibility of wisdom. It”

— Richard Russo

“It makes me wonder if living under tragic circumstances inflects a person's sentences, irresistibly, with poetry.”

— Sara Baume

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail…

— Walt Whitman

“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. This must not be forgotten. This…

— Albert camus

“Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!”

— Charles Dickens